Preview: Phoenix Suns (5-2) vs. Portland Trail Blazers (5-2)

Summary of 3 articles · Updated Nov 14, 2013

Portland recovered enough and is tied with the Suns in the early and meaningless Western Conference standings at 5-2, though the Blazers haven’t had much of a schedule, either. The panic engulfing Portland following the Phoenix Suns’ season-opening win ag… (more)ainst the Trail Blazers might have said a lot about what Terry Stotts team’s expectations were. The Suns game plan heading into tonight may have been the same as it was on opening night: let Lillard and Aldridge get theirs and keep the rest of the Trail Blazers from scoring. Maybe that’s why the Suns are so surprising. It seemed unlikely that he was going to get off the up-close schneid against a Phoenix Suns team with a much-better-than-expected defense that entered play Wednesday giving up the league's third-lowest shooting percentage on restricted area attempts. In a Tuesday post at the very good blog Gothic Ginobili, Aaron McGuire shared a handful of observations about weird and interesting things from the first two weeks of the season.

In a Tuesday post at the very good blog Gothic Ginobili, Aaron McGuire shared a handful of observations about weird and interesting things from the first two weeks of the season. Among them? While he'd put up strong overall numbers (21.1 points, 5.4 ass…